(en) anarkismo.net: Greece: Creditors and States are nothing
... by Dmitri - MACG
If we become everything ---- Therefore there are not dilemmas. If the broader class, base,
social movement in Greece can gradually and through perseverance and faith in the struggle
to oppose resolutely and practically the confide of the lives of workers, unemployed,
pensioners, immigrants in the hands of State, governments and authority generally wherever
it comes from, and put into immediate operation and extend grass-roots structures like
those cited above, this will be a great victory, a huge (re)starting forward, especially
now, these critical moments for everybody - now that the masks have been fallen. ----
Creditors and States are nothing if we become everything ---- To clarify my position I am
not with SYRIZA neither following any dappled shade "Europhiles". I am resolutely and
unequivocally against Europe of creditors, fascists, butchers of every human dignity,
regardless which political party they belong and any misleading reason they articulate.
However, during these critical, decisive moments, not only for Greece, but for Europe and
for the whole world -as the whole issue and the point has reached is a creation of
capitalism- has nothing to do with the referendum itself. It has to do with the actual
subject which was absent from any negotiating framework during these five months - and
always. It is this subject that will be required to pay all costs, either "Yes" or "No"
prevailing. I talk about the workers, unemployed, precarious, pensioners, immigrants.
Things are very simple: possible victory of "Yes" will be completely devastating not only
for the working class and the social movement, but for the whole society, because it will
open the appetite for a final attack by the greedy Capital aiming to establish a callous
political and economic dictatorship. Already the current mobilisation of the European and
international Capital and its supporters in Greece (those who by all previous governments
ravaged literally the country and the lives of human beings) are in favour of this outcome
and are now indicative.
Possible prevalence of "No", despite all the relevant rhetoric has been developed by
almost the entire spectrum of the Left in Greece, although, in my opinion, is a clear
partisan, class choice of those who prefer it -and I stand alongside all those who choose
this answer- I think it also entails many dangers. Because even if they manage to keep
themelves in governmental power SYRIZA and their allies in their effort to manage the debt
and put back the country on track again they will be de facto forced to push painful
measures for the people -and not only financial-, whether they be baptised "left",
"alternative" or something else ...
I feel also that some games being replaying behind the backs of this people. Why, for
example, this government refused the taxation of big business and described the issue as
one of the thorniest ones of the whole negotiating process with creditors? If not big
businesses taxed wildly now that there is a chance for a new beginning, based on a truly
popular and alternative policy, when it will happen? Marinakis*, Melissanidis*,
Alafouzos*, Copelouzos*, Vardinoyannis* and Latsis*, still murdering workers in Hellenika
Petrelaia (ELPE - Hellenic Petroleum), even leading and manipulating municipal councils,
evading taxes solemnly -possing of course themeselves as patriots- and associating
themselves with the big European and international Capital.
In this direction, the only road of struggle is, in my opinion, one way, and has to do
just about everything that the grass-roots, base, class and broader social movement in
Greece created and put into practise in recent years: the forms of solidarity economy, the
solidarity movements provide medical care to those who can not afford or shelter for the
homeless Syrian migrants who cross-borderd, co-operative factories and workplaces,
self-managed restaurants and cafes, collectives in bookshops and publishing area, popular
markets without intermediaries and open free bazaars, social clinics, peoples'
neighborhood assemblies and any such open, grass-roots structures, alternative schemes
based on direct social action, direct democracy, non intermediation, outside and beyond
any political party control or embrace and away from every commodity logic of profit.
All these projects represent a hope for the future - the only and the most appropriate.
And to defend ourselves I consider as more than a serious need to defend first the whole
working class, united as a fist. The daily training of ourselves and others, the
horizontal, unmediated organisation of all of us, the everyday, gradual emancipation of
our class is required and offers the only solution.
Therefore there are not dilemmas. If the broader class, base, social movement in Greece
can gradually and through perseverance and faith in the struggle to oppose resolutely and
practically the confide of the lives of workers, unemployed, pensioners, immigrants in the
hands of State, governments and authority generally wherever it comes from, and put into
immediate operation and extend grass-roots structures like those cited above, this will be
a great victory, a huge (re)starting forward, especially now, these critical moments for
everybody - now that the masks have been fallen.
Dimitris Troaditis
(A member of MACG)
*Names of owners of ships, factories, TV Channels, newspapers etc in Greece.
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